Garnish Island

Exotic Visitor to Garnish

garn1617 — Wed, 16 May 2012 09:54:51 +0000

Air - visits Garnish

The 81-metre long super motor yacht ‘AIR’ paid a visit to Glengarriff Harbour and moored off Garnish Island this week.

It was quite a spectacle to see. AIR was launched last year and it is available for charter at the reported rate of €750,000 per week!

Built in the Koninklijke De Vries yard in Holland, AIR has a sleek and elegant exterior with modern lines, a unique matte black steel hull, and an aluminium superstructure. She measures 265.7 feet in length and has a beam of nearly 39 feet. AIR has a helicopter pad complete with helicopter in case you need to pop out for something!

The vessel can accommodate 12 guests in 7 roomy staterooms including an impressive split level owner’s suite, two guest cabins on the upper deck, one cabin on the main deck, and three on the lower deck. The owners’ observation lounge offers a breathtaking view over the eight-meter long pool on the main deck’s forward area.

Garnish Island Video

garn1617 — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:02:50 +0000

A nice video of a visit to Garnish Island…

Garnish Island Ireland

garn1617 — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:34:32 +0000

All Aboard! The Garnish Island Ferry

The Gardens are now open for 2012, the sun is shining and we hope you’ll enjoy a visit this season!

Opening time this season are as follows:

April:
Monday – Saturday 10:00 – 18:30
Sundays 13:00 – 18:30
May:
Monday – Saturday 10:00 – 18:30
Sundays 12:00 – 18:30
June:
Monday – Saturday 10:00-18:30
Sundays 11:00-18:30
July and August:
Monday – Saturday 09:30 – 18:30
Sundays 11:00 – 18:30
September:
Monday – Saturday 10:00 – 18:30
Sundays 12:00 – 18:30
October:
Monday – Saturday 10:00 – 16:00
Sundays 13:00 – 17:00

Last landing 1 hour before closing.
Average Length of Visit: 1-2 hours.

Flying boat in Glengarriff Harbour

garn1617 — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:38:18 +0000

Flying Boat - Glengarriff Bantry Bay 1977

A fascinating retrospective video from the 1977 program As The Crow Flies on the RTE player showed some wonderful shots of Bantry Bay, Glengarriff and this amazing shot of Maureen O’Hara’s Flying Boat moored in Glengarriff.

Garnish Featured in Wall Street Journal

garn1617 — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 19:51:57 +0000

John Crowley writes an interesting piece on West Cork in which he has the following to say about Garnsih Island:

West Cork, located favorably on the Gulf Stream, in the county of Cork, is itself a breeding ground for flora and fauna. There is even a small island in Bantry Bay entirely devoted to ornamental subtropical plants. Beloved by horticulturalists, the 15-hectare Garinish Island possesses a magnificent Italian garden that thrives in the area’s humid microclimate. It is reached by ferry from the nearby town of Glengarriff, whose beauty has captured the imagination of many over the years. “What sends picturesque tourists to the Rhine and Saxon Switzerland [as] within five miles round the pretty inn of Glengarriff there is a country of the magnificence of which no pen can give an idea,” Victorian author William Makepeace Thackeray wrote in 1842. “I would like to be a great prince, and bring a train of painters over to make…a set of pictures of the place.” Read More

Island Centenary

garn1617 — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:48:17 +0000

To celebrate the centenary of the gardens, Minister Mansergh officially opened an Exhibition of Stone Artifacts and The Centenary Garden on the Island.